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Customers look at new Huawei Pura 70 series smartphones: Smartphone sales for Huawei Technologies have rebounded recently. © Reuters

ITSURO FUJINO, Nikkei staff writer

GUANGZHOU -- Huawei Technologies looks to complete its departure from Google's Android operating system this year with the rollout of a new OS developed fully in-house, further sidestepping U.S. export controls that had cramped the Chinese company's mobile business.

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